TOMORROW

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes in to us at midnight very clean.  It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands, and hopes we've learned something from yesterday."  -John Wayne

"It's a never-ending struggle, which is great. You can always get better! You can never get there. It's a journey with no arrival. And that's the beauty of it -- that you can always become better the next day. It's pretty cool to think about it in that sense. Tomorrow I will be a better player than I was today." -Tiger Woods

TODAY

"I always say to my guys, 'The most important day of your life is today. This very minute is the most important of your life. You must win this minute. You must win this day. And tomorrow will take care of itself.'" -Coach John Chaney

“Neglect enough todays, and you’ll experience the ‘someday’ you’ve wanted to avoid.” -John Maxwell

"Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't." -Jerry Rice

"What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment." –Nick Saban

"At night when I go to bed, I ask myself, 'If I don’t wake up tomorrow, would I be proud of how I lived today.'” -Muhammad Ali

“The greatest of all insights is that we cannot do tomorrow what we do not do today.” -John Maxwell

“The first choice we make each and every day is, ‘Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?’” –Stephen Covey

"At night when I go to bed, I ask myself, 'If I don't wake up tomorrow would I be proud of how I lived today.'" –Muhammad Ali

"Never tell your neighbors to wait until tomorrow if you can help them now." -Proverbs 3:28

“People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It’s too late for yesterday. And you can’t depend on tomorrow. That’s why today matters!” -John Maxwell

“The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.” -John Maxwell

“Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily. The earlier you make those right decisions and the longer you manage them, the more successful you can become. The people who neglect to make those decisions and to manage them well often look back on their lives with pain and regret — no matter how much talent they possessed or how many opportunities they once had.” -John Maxwell

“One today is worth two tomorrows; what I am to be, I am now becoming.” -Benjamin Franklin

“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. You see, success doesn’t just suddenly occur one day in someone’s life. For that matter, neither does failure. Each is a process. Every day of your life is merely preparation for the next. What you become is the result of what you do today.” -John Maxwell

“The way you live your life today is preparing you for your tomorrow. The question is, ‘What are you preparing for? Are you grooming yourself for success of failure?’” -John Maxwell

“The only adequate preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today.” -John Maxwell

“Everyone wants to have a good day, but not many people know what a good day looks like — much less how to create one. And even few people understand the way you live today impacts your tomorrow.” -John Maxwell

"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write on your heart every day is the best day of the year." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing is worth more than this day.” -Goethe

“Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or not start at all.” –Dennis Kimbro

TIME

"The things that matter most must never be at the mercy of the things that matter least." -Goethe

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of." –Benjamin Franklin

"Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed." –Peter Drucker

"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste time." -Henry Ford

“A large part of using time efficiently is creating a clear sense of expectations.” –John Wooden

“If you want to be good at something you must spend time on it. If you want to be "the best at it" you must spend more time on it than others do.” –Kevin Eastman

“Time management has nothing do with the clock, but everything to do with organizing and controlling your participation in certain events that coordinate with the clock. Einstein understood time management is an oxymoron. It cannot be managed. You can’t save time, lose time, turn back the hands of time or have more time tomorrow than today. Time is unemotional, uncontrolled, unencumbered. It moves forward regardless of circumstances and, in the game of life, creates a level playing field for everyone.” -Myers Barnes

“The very worst use of your time is to do what need not be done at all.” –Brian Tracy

"There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing." –Brian Tracy

"Everything requires time. It is the one truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted, this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time." –Peter Drucker

"There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it." -Lou Holtz

“Time is your most precious resource. It is the most valuable thing you have. It is perishable, it is irreplaceable, and it cannot be saved. It can only be reallocated from activities of lower value to activities of higher value. All work requires time. And time is absolutely essential for the important relationships in your life. The very act of taking a moment to think about your time before you spend it will begin to improve your personal time management immediately.” –Brian Tracy

THINKING

"Trust is like the air we breathe. When it's present, nobody really notices. But when it's absent, everybody notices." -Warren Buffett

“Every now and then we should just sit and think. You never know what you will come up with.” –Kevin Eastman

 “The ancestor of every action is a thought.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We try to get our players to play intelligently. A key to that is getting them to understand not just that something works but why.” –Bob Knight

“You’ve got to think about ‘big things’ while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.” -Alvin Toffler.

"Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week." –George Bernard Shaw

“Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.” -Anthony Robbins

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” -William Shakespeare

"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking."  -Voltaire

"Too often we...enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -John F. Kennedy

"Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it."  -Viriginia Woolf

“Thinking is one of the toughest things a leader has to teach.  To be able to think on the run has been a key to Duke basketball success.” –Mike Krzyzewski

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” -George S. Patton

“I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through—then follow through.” –Eddie Rickenbacker

"As he thinks in his heart, so is he" -Proverbs 23:7

"A man is always better than he thinks." –Woody Hayes

"If we can become quicker mentally, if we can recognize things quicker, anticipate quicker, then we automatically become quicker physically." –Bob Knight

“More gold has been mined from the thoughts of man than has ever been taken from the earth.” –Napoleon Hill

“Thinking is hard work; that’s why so few do it.” –Albert Einstein

"I was insisting that all employees not only raise their level of “play” but dramatically lift the level of their thinking – how they perceived their relationship to the team and its member; how they approached the vagaries of competition; and how willing they were to sacrifice for the goals I identified.” –Bill Walsh

“Think! If you don’t think, you deserve to be a failure. Perhaps you say you haven’t time to think — you have too much work to do. But heedless work is profitless. You must think or fail. Take your choice.” –Henry Baldwin Hyde

“You are trying to get players to understand that how they play is a hell of a lot more important than whether or not they win.” –Bob Knight

TECHNOLOGY AND EQUIPMENT

“If you’re mining gold, you better give your miners the best shovels and picks out there—or you won’t get much gold out of them.” –Bo Schembechler

"If the competition has laptop computers and you're still using yellow legal pads, it won't matter how long and hard you work -- they're going to pass you by." -Bill Parcells

“How much I speak to the players on our team is important, but they’ll forget a lot of what they hear.  It’s also important to make sure they watch and observe through action and videotape.  Usually, the team will remember more of what they see.  But the most critical aspect of our team training is what they guys actually do and what they understand.” –Mike Krzyzewski

“I want all the players on our team to see themselves through my eyes.  They need to know how they really are, not just how they think they are.  If they can step outside themselves and watch their performances as I see them, then they may internalize both their shortcomings and their strengths.  That’s why videotape is very important in my business.  Because any way you cut it, when a player sees himself on videotape — as the coach sees him — you can bet your life, he’s going to try to improve.  And the helps not only individual performance, but overall team effectiveness.” –Mike Krzyzewski

“We make it a habit to view videotapes after practices and games because we want our players accustomed to dealing with the truth that the cameral reveals.” –Mike Krzyzewski

TEAMWORK

"One thing I believe to the fullest is that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games but teamwork and intelligence wins championships." –Michael Jordan

"For me, the fact that your game plan and strategies worked out — that’s incidental. For me the satisfaction is that 12 guys have listened and absorbed, and found a way to band together to win.” -Phil Jackson

"Nobody is a whole team...We need each other. You need someone and someone needs you. Isolated islands we're not. To make this thing called life work, we gotta learn and support. And relate and respond. And give and take. And confess and forgive. And reach out and embrace and rely. ..Since none of us is a whole, independent, self-sufficient, super-capable, all-powerful hotshot, let's quit acting like we are. Life's lonely enough without our playing that silly role. The game is over. Let's link up." –Chuck Swindoll

"People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them." -Dr. Allan Fromme

“There’s nothing greater in the world than when somebody on the team does something good and everybody gathers around to pat him on the back.” –Billy Martin

“To be the best in the world. Not last week. Not next year. But right now. You are the best. And it’s even more satisfying as a team, because that’s more difficult. If I play well, that’s one thing. But to make others play better…” –Bill Russell

“The fourth dimension that determines success or failure is selfless teamwork and collective pride, which accumulate until they make positive thinking and victory habitual.” –Vince Lombardi

“My driving belief is this: great teamwork is the only way to reach our ultimate moments, to create the breakthroughs that define our careers, to fulfill our lives with sense of lasting significance.” –Pat Riley

"When two people work together to accomplish something that would have been more difficult or impossible individually something special happens." -Dick Devenzio

“I don’t get a big charge out of being the leading scorer. The object of competing is winning. I just try to do what has to be done for us to win. That might be anything at the time — defense, rebounding, passing. I get great satisfaction out of being a team player.” –Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"Each individual player has much greater ability than he thinks he has.  Particularly when he uses that ability in a committed team effort." -Woody Hayes

“The best potential of me is we.” –Dale Brown

"Thee lift me and I'll lift thee and we'll ascend together." -Quaker Proverb

"When I gave up ME, I became MORE. I became a captain, a leader, a better person and I cam to understand that life is a team game...and you know what? I’ve found most people aren’t team players. They don’t realize that life is the only game in town. Someone should tell them. It has made all the difference in the world to me.” –Don Mattingly

“As I’ve stated before, the greatest potential of me is we. Each player must respect one another and give of himself for the good of the team.” –Dale Brown

"Even when you've played the game of your life, it's the feeling of teamwork that you'll remember. You'll forget the plays, the shots, and the scored, but you'll never forget your teammates." -Deborah Palmore

“When I gave up me, I became more.  I became a captain, a leader, a better person and I came to understand that life is a team game...And you know what?...I've found most people aren't team players.  They don't realize that life is the only game in town.  Someone should tell them.  It has made all the difference in the world to me.” –Don Mattingly

"One of the most difficult challenges of coaching, particularly in recent years, has been shifting the attitude of as many players as possible from self-interest to being team-oriented." –Tom Osborne

"Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work." -Vince Lombardi

"Teamwork doesn't tolerate the inconvenience of distance." -Anonymous

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” -Henry Ford

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." -Booker T. Washington

“To be a good player on your team, you have to affect someone else on the team. You have to cause them to play better by the way you play. You affect other players with the character and attitude. To be a great player, you have to affect your entire unit. If you are a great player, every player on that unit plays better when you are on the field.” –Nick Saban

“Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, and a civilization work.” -Vince Lombardi

“Ten strong horses couldn't pull an empty baby carriage if they worked independently of each other.” -John Wooden

“The secret of winning football games is working more as a team, less as individuals. I play not my 11 best, but my best 11.” -Knute Rockne

"The group that can play as one, with spirit and courage, has the best chance to win." -Mike Krzyzewski

"In all things that are purely social, we can be as separate as the fingers yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." -Booker T. Washington-

“Everybody makes such a big deal today about team play because there’s such a scarcity of it. Greed is a reason. You have to understand the influence of greed. A player has to be selfish in the pursuit of the development of his skills, but he cannot be selfish when it comes time to blend them in with what’s good for his team.” -Pete Carril

“There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players and never win titles. Most of the time, those players aren’t willing to sacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, in the end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individual goals more difficult to achieve.” -Michael Jordan

"Individuals play the game, but teams win championships." –Bill Parcells

“Behind an able man there are always other able men.” –Chinese proverb

"Working together precedes winning together...collaboration is multiplication." -John Maxwell

"Iron sharpens iron so one man sharpens another." -King Solomon

“Guys who play together can beat a group of all-stars on any given night.” Team over talent. Collective identity over individual ego.” –Jerry Colangelo

“Team sports are really difficult things. Sometimes your team wins because of you, sometimes in spite of you and sometimes it’s like you’re not even there.” –Don Mattingly

“Most people go into everything looking out for their own ass. They’re looking out for themselves, and they’ll say all the right things and give you a lot of lip service, but they’re taking care of number one. There’s nothing wrong with that but you’ll never be part of something truly significant if that’s going to be your attitude.” –Pat Riley

"The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I'd made my teammates play." -Bill Russell

TEAM

“The best teams are team in any sport that lose themselves in the team. The individuals lose their identity. And their identities come about as a result of being in the team first.” -Mike Krzyzewski

“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stairs in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.” -Babe Ruth

"Building the team is as important as producing the product." -Bob Taylor

“There can be no separation in your organization. You win as a team, you lose as a team.” –Mike Shanahan

“The number one thing that I like about football. You need to have the whole team buying into that team concept. The part I like the most about it is when the whole team kind of loses itself for one common goal to win a championship. There is not a better feeling for me, especially after a Super Bowl, that you are the best in the world at least for that year and how collectively the team was able to accomplish that.” –Jack Ham

“It’s the easiest thing in the world to understand, but the hardest thing to achieve.  So in order to make it happen, the team has to learn how to think as one.” –Mike Krzyzewski

“There’s a lot of reasons to love football. The ones that come to mind right off bat are the unbelievable sense of camaraderie. Bill Walsh used to tell us, “What greater thing in the world than people from all different backgrounds, all different races, all different religions coming together. And you go out there on Sunday, and everyone’s on the same team.’ I think it’s the purest game in the world. Every game is a challenge physically and mentally. It calls on you coming together as a unit and trusting your teammates.” - John Lynch

“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team." –John Wooden

“Team sports are really difficult things.  Sometimes your team wins because of you, sometimes in spite of you and sometimes it's like you're not even there.  That's the reality of the team game.  Than at one point in my career...something wonderful happened.  I don't know why or how...but I came to understand what "team" meant.  It meant that although I didn't get a hit or make a great defensive play.  I could impact my team by caring first and foremost about the team's success and not my own.” –Don Mattingly

"X & O's aren't worth a damn without a team. If your team isn't with you it doesn't matter what you draw up. The team must respect what the coach is asking them to do." -Hubie Brown

"I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion." -Mia Hamm

"People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don't share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat." –Bear Bryant

“Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.” –Don Meyer